My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite **** (of 4)

Korede, the older sister, in this upper crust Nigerian family is feeling kind of bitter. Her younger sister, Ayoola, has just killed her third boyfriend and is sending out unrepentant Intsagrams way too soon. Ayoola can hardly help herself. She is stunningly beautiful, the kind of carefree, unselfconscious young woman that causes men of all ages to breathe through their mouths when she enters a room. Only she has a terrible tendency to put knives into them and call upon Korede to help when it is time to dispose of a body of a man who might or might not have come on a little too strong.

Hovering at the edges of this screwball comedy are darker forces and larger questions. How dangerous is it to be single, wealthy, lovely, and female in Lagos, Nigeria? What are anyone's prospects when facing a Nigerian judicial system that begins with corrupt cops as likely to shake you down for a bribe while you are caught in a traffic jam as they are to hunt for a real killer? And what responsibilities do older siblings hold for the protection of younger ones in a family where their father is far from upstanding? My Sister is short and snappy but filled with as much depth and murkiness as the lagoon beneath the bridge where Korede and Ayoola drop stabbed boyfriends.